Lots of people responded with checking permissions on /tmp. I didn't mentioned
it earlier but the permissions are correct. What I found out is vxfs filesystems
does not support the creation of sockets (/tmp/.X11-unix/X0, which is a socket,
is never created). Recreating the filesystem as ufs works ok.
BTW, for the person who stated that /tmp is swap, you are totally wrong. This is
a very common misconception. /tmp normally is mounted as tmpfs which is memory.
It is not a fixed size. It shrinks/grows as needed. Swap is device or filesystem
swap (however, you have it defined) which is on disk. Swap is always a fixed
size; it doesn't dynamically shrink and grow like tmpfs.
Thanks for all the quick responses.
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David Blaine (blained@gdls.com)
Computer Systems Engineer
CSC for GDLS
Phone: 810-825-7650
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 15:55:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David W. Blaine" <blained@gdls.com>
Subject: X server won't start
To: sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
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Hi Sun gurus:
We have a E5000 recently upgraded to Solaris 2.6 with the latest recommended and
y2k patches installed. After noticing memory allocation errors on several user
applications and not finding a problem with swap or memory, we decided to
convert /tmp from tmpfs to a disk filesystem (vxfs). Once this was completed and
the system rebooted, the X server wouldn't start so the CDE login screen
wouldn't display. I thought I saw a recent message on this problem but couldn't
find it in sunsolve, sun-managers archive or faq. Could someone help?!
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David Blaine (blained@gdls.com)
Computer Systems Engineer
CSC for GDLS
Phone: 810-825-7650
P.S. We are still experiencing memory allocation problems. We feel that we might
have stumbled onto a Solaris 2.6 memory leak (since the same applications,
memory, swap size and system running Solaris 2.5.1 does not have the problem).
Any ideas on this problem would also be appreciated.
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